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I had not heard of Edward Thomas, but I am becoming a fan. He died in battle during the Great War. British writer, poetry and prose. A friend of Robert Frost, but a harder read. He has inspired me to try my hand at a bit of verse.
I am almost ashamed to admit that until a few months ago I had barely heard of Edward Thomas, let alone read any of his work. Ashamed, because 35 is really too old to be discovering a major poet for the first time (though I suppose there is something to be said for starting to read a poet at the age when he first began writing). Ashamed, but also delighted, because reading and re-reading these poems over the last week has afforded me the kind of breathless rush of discovery that I get to experie...
I read, under the strictest compulsion, in other words for school exams Edward Thomas's poetry when I was seventeen and or eighteen - I can't be sure any more if only in one year or over both but he was on the syllabus along with The Playboy of the western World, to the Lighthouse and Edwin Muir's autobiography...oh and A handful of Dust too. I can't say that I have any special memories of reading him in class, in a mostly empty room , there were five or six of us with one teacher, all the wind...
